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Vovchansk in Ukraine's northeast that had been occupied for four months, officials said Tuesday. The plant, a partly steel structure with some 30 buildings, had been a Russian stronghold in the Kharkiv border region since May when Russia sought to further stretch Ukraine's weary forces by launching a fresh push in the area. Taking back the plant was likely intended to demonstrate that Ukraine is not giving up the fight despite being outmanned and outgunned by the Russian army. The accomplishment coincided with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's trip to the United States where he is looking to ensure continuing foreign support for his country with the war deep into its third year.

conflict between Israel and Hezbollah grabs global attention, Palestinians in Gaza wonder: What will become of their plight after nearly a year of devastating war? They are petrified that international concern has been diverted, and that a dark possibility looms: abandonment. The families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza have the same worry. Nezar Zaqout, one of some 1.9 million Palestinians forced to flee their homes since the Israel-Hamas war broke out, said he fears the fighting across the Israel-Lebanon border will overtake interest in the abysmal living conditions in Gaza and efforts to negotiate a cease-fire.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Thousands of Lebanese are fleeing their homes in the country’s south as Israel intensifies its military campaign against Hezbollah, raising fears of an all-out war a day after a barrage of strikes killed hundreds in the country. In the early hours of Tuesday, the Israeli military launched dozens more airstrikes against Hezbollah after downing projectiles fired from Lebanon.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. AFTER ALMOST 300 days, planning for the end of the fighting in Gaza is beginning to seem otherworldly. Politicians and generals have been talking about what might happen when the shooting stops since the start of the war in October.

A Hong Kong-based airline has banned two passengers from ever flying with them again, after a fight broke out over a reclined seat and descended into xenophobic insults and harassment.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The latest summit of the four-nation Quad, which brought together the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the US, ended over the weekend with agreements to extend cooperation in areas varying from fighting cervical cancer and ensuring cybersecurity to joint development of port infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific, the creation of an air-logistics network and a group effort to keep chip supplies secure. This reflects a broad agenda, with the well-being of the region’s people at its heart.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BEIRUT—Israel launched devastating attacks on Hezbollah in recent days with airstrikes and remote-control explosions that put the Lebanese militant group on the defensive and demonstrated Israel’s vast superiority in intelligence gathering and technology. A ground war between the two, if it occurs, would likely be a different story.

Hezbollah — deadly attacks pinned on Israel that also maimed civilians across Lebanon. Hezbollah's leader vowed to retaliate, and on Friday the militant group launched a wave of rockets into northern Israel. Later in the day, the commander of Hezbollah's most elite unit was killed in a strike in Beirut that killed dozens more people. The cross-border attacks ramped up early Sunday, with Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Shiite group that is Lebanon's most powerful armed force, launching more than 100 rockets deeper into northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa. Israel launched hundreds of strikes on Lebanon.

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Will someone please offer Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a job? Preferably, a nice sinecure at an NGO in another country that’s subsidized by Liberal donors.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said his heart and doors were always open for the people of the Union Territory. He promised to represent them to the best of his abilities in Parliament. Gandhi addressed an election campaign rally in Shalteng constituency of Srinagar, from where the recently-appointed J&K Congress chief Tariq Karra is contesting as NC-Congress alliance candidate. However, no NC leader was present on the stage in Shalteng as the party's rebel candidate Irfan Shah, who won the 2008 assembly elections here, is now fighting as an independent. Noor Muhammad, a former colleague of Karra in PDP, is also contesting here. In another rally in Surankote constituency of Poonch, Gandhi was accompanied by NC chief Farooq Abdullah.

Secularism is a European concept evolved after a conflict between the church and the king whereas Bharat is a dharma-centric nation and therefore, it was not part of the Constitution, but added during the Emergency by «one insecure prime minister», Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi has said. A lot of frauds have been committed on the people of the country, and one of them was a wrong interpretation of secularism, he said addressing an event in Kanyakumari district on Sunday. «What does secularism mean? Secularism is a European concept, secularism is not a Bharatiya concept,» he said. Decades later, during emergency (1975-77), «one insecure Prime Minister,» introduced secularism in the Constitution in order to appease some sections of people, the Governor alleged. Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister during the emergency.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi/Chennai: “After 13 years of service, I still earn ₹27,000 per month. Another worker with the same experience earns ₹36,000.

Fusion Finance, Warburg Pincus and Creation Investments are planning to recapitalise the country’s youngest microfinance company via a Rs 550-crore rights issue to strengthen its balance sheet as the firm’s provisions for the September quarter are expected to surpass earlier forecasts by up to 58%. Fusion Finance is also initiating a search for a new chief executive to strengthen its senior management bandwidth as part of a larger corporate initiative to improve the asset quality of the loan book, top officials said. “We want to be more proactive rather than be more organic in terms of handling this issue,” Fusion Finance founder Devesh Sachdev told ET.

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Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that Pakistan has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a seven-billion-dollar bailout package, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given more than this for the PF package for J&K. «Pakistan is requesting the IMF for a USD 7 billion bailout package. They could have asked India. PM Modi has given more than this in the PF package for J&K. They are in this condition because they domesticated snakes,» said Rajnath Singh while addressing a public rally in Jammu. «We have done whatever we promised in the BJP election manifesto. We spoke about the abrogation of Article 370, and we did it as soon as we got the majority in centre. I feel pained by what Omar Abudullah said and did. He said that he won't fight in elections till the J&K restores statehood, but now he is fighting from two constituencies. Parties like the PDP, NC, and Congress claim that they will give statehood to J&K. How will they? They do not have government in the centre. Without that, it is not possible. Politics should not be done to win in elections. It must be done to build a country,» Rajnath Singh said slamming J&K opposition parties.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Known as the ‘Dean of Valuation’, Aswath Damodaran, professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, is out with a new book, The Corporate Life Cycle. Companies have a life cycle very much like humans—they are born, witness growth spurts, mature and then inevitably decline.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. People who do not know that potatoes have been discredited as food usually do not want the same things from life and politics as those who eat avocados. Yet, it would appear that there are societies where everyone appears to want the same thing and even has the same wounds.

Modi's engagements during the Quad summit is the emphasis of India on minimizing conflict and division while leveraging democratic values to pursue development objectives, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Sunday. Addressing a special briefing on PM Modi's visit to the US, Misri said, «India's emphasis is on minimizing conflict and division, leveraging democratic values even as we pursued development objectives, and highlighting the role of technology and the digital revolution in ushering in good governance, essentially to turn the disruptive features of technology to good ends.» These themes found reflections during the bilateral meetings in Delaware,the Foreign secretary said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TEL AVIV : With escalating attacks on Hezbollah’s rank and file, commanders and infrastructure, Israel is pressing its military and intelligence advantage to give the Lebanese group an implied ultimatum: make a deal to pull back from Israel’s northern border, or go to war. Israel is rotating its attention to its border with Lebanon as the Gaza Strip battlefield becomes static, launching an aggressive series of attacks that have devastated Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.